Batter

(noun.) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking.

(noun.) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting.

手打:雷克斯

• They'll batter them in! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The talking ceased, and Fairway gave a circular motion to the rope, as if he were stirring batter. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He brings actions for assault and battery; I defend them and continue to assault and batter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• For I never was less disposed to forgive him the way he used to batter Traddles, than when I saw Traddles so ready to forgive him himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• So you did--so you did, honey, said Aunt Chloe, heaping the smoking batter-cakes on his plate; you know'd your old aunty'd keep the best for you. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I suppose you are only just come down--you look rather battered--you have not been long enough in the town to hear anything? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I am much too battered and old for such a fine young lady as Glorvina. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• That's very kind of him, considering the battering I gave him yesterday. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• What if we got one, and used it as a battering-ram against the door? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Haply, but for her, I should ha' gone battering mad. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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